[maemo-developers] Aw: Re: Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

[From: David Greaves]

Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:51:47PM +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> 
>> When using HildonTextView inside a PanableArea panning is working
>> fine, but I can no longer select text. Are those two mutual
>> exclusive?
> 
> In HildonTextView you cannot select text with the pointer. This is so
> by design:
> 
> https://git.maemo.org/projects/hildon/gitweb?p=hildon;a=commit;h=b34c64c879c7e86488adbe8000f2f3f2be162a73
> 
> I think that with both features enabled user interaction can be quite
> difficult/confusing if e.g. there's a big text view occupying a
> significant part of the screen.

Personally I think the developer should have the choice :)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxAIScXQvk
Look at 3:20 onwards

David


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